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Discovery of antibiotic adjuvants

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Modeling the production of reactive oxygen species in bacteria reveals targets for adjuvants that boost antibiotic activity.

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Figure 1: Systems-level approach for identifying novel targets for adjuvants that potentiate the activity of bactericidal antibiotics.

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  1. Maya A. Farha and Eric D. Brown are at the M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,

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